Without permission, with programmable cryptography

There's a war on general computation, software is eating the world and privacy is dead. Who owns your data and what do they do with it?

Zero Knowledge Proofs are magic. In recent years, they've become both more mature and popular. More broadly, programmable cryptography gives us rich and novel ways to interact with and make cryptographic claims. You know, the stuff that our digital life is made up of.

One underappreciated aspect of programmable cryptography is its permission-less nature. As long as there's cryptographic matter somewhere, we can use it.

We'll look into novel tech like OpenPassport, TLSNotary, ZK Email, and ZKP2P to see what we can do with programmable cryptography. It is our data. Let's use it.

The future is here but unevenly distributed. Let's follow the magic and see where it takes us.